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WALLY SCHIRRA'S PILOT SUNGLASSES. SCHIRRA ON SPORTS CARS AND MORE! Standard-issue military sunglasses by General Optical, in gold-colored metal with straight-prong supports and green-gray lenses.
25 March 2013, 13:00 EDT
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WALLY SCHIRRA'S PILOT SUNGLASSES.
SCHIRRA ON SPORTS CARS AND MORE! Standard-issue military sunglasses by General Optical, in gold-colored metal with straight-prong supports and green-gray lenses. With a Typed Letter Signed by WALLY SCHIRRA on his personal Rancho Santa Fe, CA, letterhead.
WALLY SCHIRRA'S signed provenance reads: "Enclosed with this letter is my pair of straight prong sunglasses I wore during training during the days of Gemini and Apollo. I also wore them while driving various sports cars. We had access to "loaner" cars such as the Chevrolet Corvette. I remember a crew photo session prior to my Apollo 7 flight driving a Corvette and wearing a long white scarf. A lot of jokes were being exchanged but I topped them all with a "well hung" remark.
Personally, my preference in sports cars was for an Austin-Healy which I owned prior to driving the "loaner." I liked the light touch feel of the Austin, it was a lot like flying a fighter aircraft or nimble spacecraft like the Gemini and Apollo. I later bought a second hand Maserati. I liked it a lot more that a used Ferrari I owned in 1963, a year after my Mercury flight. I kept the Ferrari for less than a year. Most of us in the Astronaut Corps had the itch to keep moving on the ground as fast as we were able to fly in orbit."
WALLY SCHIRRA'S signed provenance reads: "Enclosed with this letter is my pair of straight prong sunglasses I wore during training during the days of Gemini and Apollo. I also wore them while driving various sports cars. We had access to "loaner" cars such as the Chevrolet Corvette. I remember a crew photo session prior to my Apollo 7 flight driving a Corvette and wearing a long white scarf. A lot of jokes were being exchanged but I topped them all with a "well hung" remark.
Personally, my preference in sports cars was for an Austin-Healy which I owned prior to driving the "loaner." I liked the light touch feel of the Austin, it was a lot like flying a fighter aircraft or nimble spacecraft like the Gemini and Apollo. I later bought a second hand Maserati. I liked it a lot more that a used Ferrari I owned in 1963, a year after my Mercury flight. I kept the Ferrari for less than a year. Most of us in the Astronaut Corps had the itch to keep moving on the ground as fast as we were able to fly in orbit."